1813 to 1880 Baptism Project Emneth St Edmund |
Baptisms 1813 to 1880
The parish of Emneth is one of
the most westerly within the county of Norfolk forming part of the
county's border with neighbouring Cambridgeshire. Ecclesiastically
Emneth was a chapelry of the Cambridgeshire parish of Elm, a minor
curiosity of geography. Emneth is located roughly 3 miles
southeast of the Cambridgeshire market town of Wisbech and lies
just east of the A1122 road linking Wisbech with Downham Market.
Emneth is a large and rather straggling village, almost a small
town itself, a centre sits at a major crossroads junction whilst
properties spread westwards and southwestwards towards the A1122
and also south from that centre. Emneth sits at the heart of
Fenland, a vast low-lying area at or barely above sea-level which
has been much man-influenced through drainage projects across the
centuries. The rich soils recovered from that work lead to
high-intensity farming with table vegetables a speciality
alongside the tradition arable crops. Early gazetteers place
almost half the parish acreage to pasture, that has long ceased to
be as dominant a feature of this flat landscape. The course of the
former route of the Nene defines Emneth and the county's western
border but this is largely a cut-off channel today as broad drains
channel water swiftly to the nearby Wash. |
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Two standard register books cover the period of this transcript, the first of 800-entries runs from 1813 to 1834, the second of 1600-entries continues to completion in 1907. Both registers are deposited at Wisbech's Fenland Museum whilst Norfolk Record Office has filmed copies on Microfilm MF542 in its collection which was used to prepare this transcript. The usual reservations regarding clerical standards apply in that handwriting over such a long transcript vary considerably and at times verge on the challenging. Keen eyes will note on mother listed as "James", this is as written in the register and not a transcription error. |
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